Indie rock band, Last Dinosaurs have returned today with their latest full-length album, From Mexico With Love. Brothers Lachlan and Sean Caskey, along with Michael Sloane wrote the album when Australia closed their borders due to COVID. The pandemic found Lachlan stuck in Canada before making his way to Mexico to work on the album in creative solitude, and the rest was magic.
Lachlan found a wellspring of creativity and as soon as Australia opened, Lachlan took his raw material back home to the band to produce From Mexico with Love. While the writing was a solo act, the band agrees that it’s the final touches that are so important to the sound. That’s where the collaboration with Sean, lead guitarist, and Sloane, on bass comes in. The melodies are funky and upbeat. Electric guitar riffs paired with smooth vocals, feels simple and happy: the kind of music you want to roller skate under a disco ball to. But the lyrics are anything but simple.
In addition to original writing, the album was also totally self-produced with the help of Australian producer James Agnus. The result is an electric testimony to the DIY tradition that investigates the places we go not just externally but internally. Inside that, landscapes spanning gratitude within the exhaustion of touring in the first track, “Hanson’s Ghost,” to the feeling of leaving behind a familiar life in “Look Back.” He speaks of taking risks for love in “Put Up with the Weather!” With “Collect Call,” Lachlan muses on forgotten dreams and letting go against an impossibly catchy melody.
“In Mexico I had a lot of time to think about life, to face the demons and just figure shit out. But there were also rapturous moments where I felt so free,” says Lachlan of the writing process.
The result is an album that finds the band exploring the world both around and within us, all while pickinng up the momentum where they left off. To start, that means an international headlining tour of Europe and the UK and over 20 headlining shows in the US and Canada.
They show no signs of slowing down, finishing up a U.S. tour alongside Bad Suns before heading to a sold out date in Singapore (sold out in 2 days), and December dates in Australia; Sydney and Melbourne are already sold out! The Dinos also announced festival appearances at Maho Rasop Festival in Thailand and most recently, ‘A Day on the Green’ with Florence + the Machine, King Princess, and Hatchie in March of 2023. Tickets can be found HERE.
LAST DINOSAURS TOUR DATES:
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES W/BAD SUNS:
Nov 04 Birmingham, AL @ Workplay
Nov 05 Searcy, AR @ Harding University
Nov 06 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s
Nov 08 Houston, TX @ White Oak
Nov 10 Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf – SOLD OUT
Nov 11 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto
Nov 12 Las Vegas, NV @ 24 Oxford
SINGAPORE TOUR DATES:
Nov 17 Singapore @ *SCAPE Theatre – SOLD OUT
THAILAND TOUR DATES:
Nov 20 Bangkok, Thailand @ Maho Rasop Festival
AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES:
Dec 02 Brisbane, AU @ The Triffid
Dec 07 Sydney, AU @ Oxford Art Factory – SOLD OUT
Dec 08 Melbourne, AU @ The Espy – SOLD OUT
LAST DINOSAURS 2023 TOUR DATES:
Mar 18 Mt Cotton, AU @ A Day on the Green w/Florence + the Machine